waffle
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Yet it sits in one of South Carolina’s poorest counties, surrounded by waffle houses, dollar stores and personal injury lawyers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 24, 2026
Be honest with yourself: Are you really going to use the dusty waffle maker in your kitchen cabinet?
From MarketWatch ● Feb. 23, 2026
She put the sweet and savory ingredients and eggs in the waffle maker.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2025
Instead teachers are being fed waffle about eye-contact, hand signals and merits.
From BBC ● Jun. 18, 2025
As in the Pantheon, the domed roof was a waffle pattern of recessed square panels, but here each panel was a stela—a grave marker with Ancient Greek inscriptions.
From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan
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He threw out defeatism and acted when everyone else waffled.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 5, 2026
Sauer waffled, prompting Justice Sonia Sotomayor to leap in and tell him: “Could you just answer the justice’s question?”
From Slate ● Nov. 5, 2025
While Dolan’s office said New York was “blessed with the greatest bagel stores in the world,” the cardinal waffled on announcing from which establishment he would be buying the goods.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 25, 2024
That came after Rodgers waffled on whether he should make the trip and skip a couple of full days of rehab.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 17, 2023
Every time he waffled, though, Lydia would whip out her phone or her laptop and show him the steadily increasing number of views, comments, and likes “Dearly” had.
From "The Serpent King" by Jeff Zentner
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It’s important to precisely define and label this market shift—how else can I claim to have seen it coming all along, while waffling about what happens next?
From Barron's ● Feb. 20, 2026
When “Yellowstone,” Sheridan’s first show, premiered in 2018, #MeToo was reverberating across television with producers waffling over whether to villainize or defend macho characters.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2025
But this constant tonal waffling results in an audience that sees something strange and laughs because they’ve been trained by filmmakers to think that, when something is uncomfortable, laughter is the appropriate response.
From Salon ● Aug. 8, 2025
“He moves with intent, there’s no waffling around or looking around. He knew where to go,” Henderson said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2023
The judge seemed to be waffling as well.
From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng
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